Hargeisa: (Somalilandsun)
– Burao airport is the next targeted in the ongoing development of
airports in the country following successful Egal in Hargeisa and
Berbera in Sahil.
This was revealed by the Somaliland minister of
aviation Hon. Mohamud Hashi Abdi after his monitoring and evaluation
tour of Burao airport which construction for its planned expansion
project is going on.
The minister said that the project is a
success hence it a large portion of land that belonged to the airport
and had been invaded by squatters illegally has been recovered and
development work proceeding accordingly.
In the media briefing
the minister stated that the airport in Burao had been deleted from the
ICAO world airports records after it airstrip was looted.He added that
the government started the battle of relocating the vast looted lands
that was legally part of Burao airport.
The minister said that
the project has also succeeded in the construction of a 9 km perimeter
wall of which 4.5 km is a bricked concrete wall and the other 4.5 km is
barbed wire which ICAO have approved
The aviation minister said that the next project is the construction of a 3 km runway that will commence soon.
He
concluded by saying that the Hargeisa and Berbera airports respectively
pass the international airports standard and the government will to it
that the other remaining ones follow the suit.
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